I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
2012
What DNA can, and cannot, prove
DNA is a very effective way to identify an individual. Properly used it is almost infallible Only a few cells are needed for DNA identification, The source of a DNA…
Stephen Harper’s Portrait
Ms. Margaret Sutherland got it all wrong. This portrait of Stephen Harper would have been more appropriate.
Hans Rosling: Religions and babies
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What they don’t understand about EI
Here’s what the Harper Conservatives don’t understand about many EI frequent flyers:It’s not the workers that EI is subsidizing. Its the industry they work in.Activities like commercial fishing, vegetable and…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Julian Beltrame reports on the Cons’ concerted efforts to add to corporate bottom lines by attacking working Canadians: One of the measures is…
4675…This Is How You Get Fired
From Deadspin.com via Gawker: Newspaper Reporter Fired For Leaving In Bit About “Coach’s Bullshit And Laziness” Wasn’t that a fun time, when a reporter at a little Louisiana newspaper accidentally…
Boy, lost
I’m a former cops and courts reporter, and I usually read crime stories more than I read politics stories. As such, I’ve been transfixed by the terrible and tragic Etan…
Friends from the Bay Area Arriving, and the Weather’s Great
So unless things change drastically I’m taking the day off.
What is Truth?
An age-old question without a firm answer, it is one I find myself regularly pondering as I continue striving toward an ideal I know will never attain, that of being…
Stephen Harper Has Never Had An Original Policy Idea In His Life
Reaching once again into his Magic Tickle Trunk of Recycled Republicanisms, Stephen Harper has trotted out some nifty new EI reform policies. You can’t blame him though. When you’ve never…
4674…Michael Harris Update
My dear friend Anonymous updates the saga that is Michael Harris, ex CFRA Ottawa talker: Here is a small comfort for those who miss Michael’s brilliant and balanced program on…
Saved by Words for Friends
Ok, we’ve both been out of commission for a couple of weeks. Our Miss Jean Hill, bright future of the nursing profession and co-blogger extraordinaire, has a computer which has…
My response to Lilley: Glenn Beck is still an anti-Semite
Folks at the Sun News Network have been asked not to go after each other off-air, and we generally observe that. It looks bad. So I was a bit surprised…
Salute democracy while suppressing it
In British online news magazine The Week, Alexander Cockburn gives his take on America. Had he turned eyes north, the American based writer would have noticed similar trends in Canada.…
Ask General Kang: What do you do when you ask God to smite your enemies, but no smiting ensues?
Ah, you human monkeys and your penchant for violent fiction! Of course, this question has no meaning for me, because I have neither been influenced by the collective delusion you…
The Dunderdale-O’Brien Confusion #nlpoli
In a scrum on Wednesday, May 23, Premier Kathy Dunderdale said: “What we are talking about, in fact, is a two hour window here.” In the House of Assembly on…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, May 25, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, May 25, 2012: LSUC Interim Report on Articling Toronto man who staged car collisions in an insurance…
b*tches in bookshops: don’t let me forget this page
Books, bookstores, and New York City! Plus hip hop girls. This video has it all. Thanks to Stephanie.
A Good Book Review on Health
Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster, April 2012) acts as the conclusion to the author’s bestselling “humble quest” trilogy. As with The Know-It-All and The Year of…